A Reflection of My
Family of Origin: The Algava/Seror Family "The Holocaust: An Obligation
to Remember". Progress: Family Systems Resarch and Therapy, 1997, Volume
6, (pp. 109-122). Encino, CA : Phillips Graduate Institute.

Grosz, Viviana Grosz

"In Search of a Lost Generation: Family Correspondence from Hungary 1936-1941,"
paper initially presented at Second Generation Network Second Generation
Trust Conference. London, England.

Pilcer, Sonia

"Reflections on Remembrance
Day," "The Berkshire Eagle", April 20, 2001

The story of two
sisters whose lives span the marketplaces of pre-war Krakow, Poland, the
horror of the Holocaust, the haven of Schindler's factory and the the
apparent peace and safety of a suburban backyard in Melbourne, Australia

Collection of interrelated
stories, first published in Australia, brings together middle-class
men and women who share a community and the same terrible childhood
memory--their parents were all Holocaust survivors.

Chronicling the lives
of Jews in America, nine stories combining history, fable, theology, and
myth include searching for an impossible gem in Manhattan's diamond district,
a university library that catalogues human evil, and a rabbi matching
wits with the devil.

Epstein traces her
maternal family history through several generations to its Central European
roots, along the way exploring the effects of assimilation, national identity,
and the Nazi Holocaust on Jews living in the Czech lands of Bohemia and
Moravia.

Three fiction
shorts exploring Holocaust themes. The title story concerns an elderly
Polish Jew who takes in a greedy couple of borders. The second story,
"Holy Fire" traces a Dutch Jewish teenager's transformation into a fanatical
fundamentalist. In "Bette," a Dutch woman cares for her terminally ill
mother.

In this novel,
Chaya, a Belgian philosophy student and child of survivors, discovers
Jewish tradition and grapples with such issues as whether God exists,
the irrational hatred of Jews over the centuries and whether the universe
is a random, meaningless coincidence. Has been made into a film called
"Left Luggage," starring Isabella Rosellini.

Explores the difficulties
of preserving an authentic version of Holocaust events, how 2nd Gen
should convey its knowledge to others, the effects of traumatic past
on its inheritors and what are the second generation's responsibilities
to its received memories.

This child of Polish
survivors was born in Krakow and emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia
at the age of thirteen. Her memoir examines the effect of emigration
during adolescence as well as loss of language and culture, and the
various contexts in which she evolved her identity as a woman and daughter
of survivors.

Alan Kaufman grew
up struggling with his Jewish identity, vowing never to become a victim
like his mother. He hitchhikes across the U.S. only to summon the phantoms
he had sought to escape. His flight, after taking him to a kibbutz in
Israel and the Israeli army, returns him to the streets of New York,
homeless and an alcoholic, until at last he finds redemption in poetry.
Review
of Jew Boy from San Francisco Chronicle

Through interviews,
photography, reportage, and personal memoir, "Who Will Say Kaddish?" creates
a sociolcultural portrait of the multilayered community of renewed Jewish
life and tradition in Poland that has emerged since the fall of the Communist
regime in 1989.

In the wake of his
divorce, Daniel searches for something that will repair the damage done
to his splintered family. He and the boys need to be connected to something
larger than themselves; they need inoculation against evil. Daniel wants
to reclaim their roots and plant them deep; to solve their dislocation
so that they might all be, if not at peace, at least incontext. But ultimately,
the trip is about finding out why he wants to take the trip, and as in
all important journeys, this is achieved in ways the travelers could not
have predicted.

12-year-old Hadara
dreams of flying. The shoemaker next door says he was once in a circus,
and he encourages her to fly. It turns out he was not in a circus but
in a concentration camp, where he fixed shoes for the Germans.

A collection 10 stories
the heroes of which are children of Holocaust survivers. The first Israeli
book to focus on the children of Holocaust survivors (published 1985;
new edition, 1998; translated into German and Italian; Soon to be published
in the USA).

"Maus."
MAUS is an illustrated narrative of Holocaust survivor Vladek Spiegelman,
edited, formatted and illustrated by his son Art Spiegelman, a veteran
of the underground comix movement of the 1960's and 70's, current cartoonist
for New Yorker Magazine, and teacher at NYC's School of Visual Arts.

The
Silence: How Tragedy Shapes Talk Waynryb interviews children of survivors
and explores communication in survivor families. Explaining the effects
of trauma on communication, this book offers an understanding of the language
of silence that often becomes the first step to healing from a multitude
of traumas.

Examines the psychology
of hatred and ethnic resentments passed from generation to generation,
argues that while legal systems offer a structured means for redressing
injustice, it often does not redress the emotional pain, which, left
unresolved, is then passed along to the next generation-leading to entrenched
ethnic tension and group conflict. Chronicles a study of children of
survivors and Nazis, and finds that story-telling is central to keeping
the cycle of ethnic and religious strife alive is, with each side recounting
the injustice it suffered and the valor shown by avenging its own group.
Now with a companion
video and blog.

Proposes answers
to the question of what therapists actually do when they are effective,
offers a mode of evaluation that focuses not on a particular school
of therapy but on the relationship between therapist and patient.

"In
the Shadow of Memory" 52 min. Focuses on Jerri Zbiral, the daughter
of a survivor of the Nazi destruction of the Catholic village of Lidice,
Czechoslovakia. By Jacky Comforty, Alan Teller, Jerri Zbiral.

"The
Optimists"82 min. How Christian and Muslim neighbors saved 50,000 Bulgarian
Jews saved from the Holocaust. Directed by Jacky Comforty.

"More
Precious Than Pearls" (50 min) A film about the father of the filmmaker,
a pearl importer in New York's Jewelry District, and his memories of growing
up in a small town in Slovakia, where his great grandfather was a Hassidic
rebbe. After liberation from Ebensee, Alex Friedman was provided a haven
in Northern Ireland which restored his faith in humankind. (USA, 2004, English)

Gold, Tami

"Emily
And Gitta" 28 min. video about Emily, the child of Holocaust survivors,
and Gitta, who grew up in Germany thinking of herself as innocent and
not responsible for her parents' generation's actions during the war.
Almost as soon as it begins, however, their relationship threatens to
be torn apart by the histories and memories they do and do not share.

Lynda Goldman, Monika
Koplow

"Alois
Brunner: The Last Nazi" tells the story of the most wanted Nazi war
criminal believed to still be alive today and living in Syria. It reveals
his crimes, how he escaped justice after WWII, who helped him and why.
Interviews include Simon Wiesenthal, Serge Klarsfeld, Holocaust experts,
survivors of Brunner's deportations, Brunner's neice and the last German
journalist who interviewed Brunner in Damascus in the late 80's. Goldman
is 2nd gen and Koplow is 3rd gen.

Gossels, Lisa

The
Children of Chabannes 91 min. 1999. Story of how the people of Chabannes,
a tiny village in unoccupied France, chose action over indifference and
saved the lives of 400 Jewish refugee children. her father and uncle were
two of the saved children.

Gruber, Jonathan

"Pola's
March" 65 min. (1998) documents grandmother's trip to Poland leading
a March of the Living group.

Kizawa, Etsuko

"Children
Of Legacy Home" one-hour video documentary that examines the aftereffects
of the Holocaust on her Jewish American family.

"Say
I'm a Jew" a video about issues of identity for the European Children
of Holocaust Survivors. Presented as part of the installation JEW, circulating
throughout the country

Reibenbach, Tsipi

"Choice
and Destiny" The filmmaker's father, Yitshak (80 years old), and mother,
Fruma (72), are Holocaust survivors living in Israel. This film portrays
their lives in retirement burdened by the shadows of memory. Unlike Yitshak,
who talks of his survival in the death camps, Fruma refuses to talk until,
under the film's influence, she breaks 50 years of silence at the end
to speak of her own family's humiliation. This moving story is told through
the small gestures of the daily routine of the couple's lives preparing
food and eating with their grandchildren.

Magazines

Davka

Four of the founders
of this magazine are children of holocaust survivors who got together
to redefine for themselves what it means to be Jewish in the 90s

Born in post-war
Germany, Jaskierowics Arman came to the US in 1962 and became a vocal
performer and teacher. She is also a visual artist and poet. About this
book, she writes: "Come with me on a voyage into the vast abyss of the
human soul and witness the transformation of my feelings into color,
form and verbal images. The exteriors are stripped away and only the
essence remains." For more about the author, see the soulreflections
website. Nominted for the 2004 Pulitzer.

Also the author
of an autobiographical account of his attempts to escape his mother's
experiences. Listed above in "books.") Other poetry titles include American
Cruiser, The New Generation and Before I Wake. Anthologies to which
he has contributed includes ALOUD:
Voices From The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Henry Holt), Identity Lessons:
Learning American Style (Penguin Books, Nov.98), Witness, Tikkun and
Long Shot.

"Jason Sommer writes
of troubles that unfold at the intersection of history made and personality
in making, of self and other, of wakefulness and sleep." Winner of a Society
of Midland Author’s Prize, finalist for the Pen USA West literary
Prize for poetry.

A
Delicate Balance For Simcha Shirman the experience of growing up in
Israel and being parented by Holocaust survivors created a sense of loss
and fragmentation. He uses the metaphor of the one-armed rider to communicate
what it feels like to be haunted by a phantom memory.

Using the "literary
practice" and the "literary event" as units of analysis, this dissertation
explores the community literary practices and cultural transmission by
examining a range of shifts in the uses and meanings of Yisker Bikher
as reported by two generations of readers and writings. As practices,
reading and writing were defined in terms of multiple activities and settings,
involving a variety of genres, uses, functions, and meanings. The study
looks at how, when, where, why, by whom, and for whom community literary
is done, in addition to the forms and features of community literacy.

Theater

Barabas, Gabor

"Find
Me A Voice" explores the spiritual consequences of the Holocaust through
the use of poetry, music, monologues and dramatic scenes. First performed
by the New Jersey Repertory Company.

"Finding my Mother's
Voice" - the true story of discovering the untold stories of my cabaret
star mother, actress Chayela Rosenthal, wunderkind of the Vilna Ghetto,
ran to sold out houses off Broadway in July, followed by special keynote
presentation in September at the 2004 International Child Survivor Conference
in Denver. Upcoming performances in 2005 include Boynton Beach JCC in
February, Cleveland - April 3, and New York - April 4 & 5 at the Folksbiene
Yiddish Theatre at the upper west side JCC.

Semel, Nova

Monodrama "The Child
Behind the Eyes," produced on stage in Israel (1986), Rome (1990), New
York (1991), Los Angeles (1996) and Prague (1997). As a radio-drama, it
was produced by the BBC London, Radio France, Radio Belgium, Radio Spain,
Radio Ireland, six radio stations in Germany, Radio Austria, and Radio
Rumania.